June 28, 2017
With support from the Ai You Foundation, Digital Impact Beijing brought together 140 participants from Chinese nonprofits, foundations, corporate social responsibility programs, and universities. The opportunity to learn with and from networks of nonprofits in China – with its rapidly developing nonprofit sector and its singular digital culture – was...
April 17, 2017
The 2017 window for applications closed at 5 PM Pacific Time on June 12, 2017. The next Digital Impact Grants cycle will open in Spring 2018. View the 2017 awards announcement. Sign up for our newsletter and connect with us @dgtlimpact to stay informed about future opportunities. [x_button shape=”rectangular” size=”regular”...
August 3, 2016
Data has been called “the new oil” as private companies discover its value for generating business insights and driving profits. Likewise, the nonprofit and civil society sector — including healthcare organizations — is increasingly using data-driven insights to design better interventions and programs. Unfortunately, the unethical and unsafe use of data...
March 14, 2016
For a long time, nonprofits and foundations have been seeking to improve outcomes. Getting there requires all kinds of new measurement schemes, thus the last two decades have brought us talk of social return on investment, quality-adjusted life years, and many other calculations. I think it’s time we...
March 9, 2016
Released this month, the study “Ebola: A Big Data Disaster,” written by Sean McDonald with the support of the Open Society Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Media Democracy Fund, leaves no stone unturned as it explores the use of Big Data in the form of Call Detail Record (CDR) data in...
February 12, 2016
This week Stanford Social Innovation Review hosted the two day Data on Purpose conference, giving “data geeks” a chance to explore the realm of using data to tell stories in the social sector. The conference featured an impressive lineup of journalists, technology innovators, computer scientists, data visualization designers, and...
February 5, 2016
A new collaboration is set to help nonprofits and foundations co-create and share practices for implementing digital data for good.
November 30, 2015
In part two of a two-part series, Lucy Bernholz shares her thoughts on #GivingTuesday, data, and giving in the digital age.
November 8, 2015
The Digital Impact Toolkit (digitalimpact.io) is a project coordinated by the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). (“Lab,” “we,” “us,” “our). The Lab is committed to transparency about data use and to protecting the privacy of your personal information. This Data...
September 28, 2015
Four principles to guide civil society’s use of digital data: Permission Civil society organizations should seek permission for the data they collect, and treat it with the same integrity with which they treat donations of time or money. Collecting data from constituents is a voluntary relationship. Civil society organizations have an...
